Pirate Bay told, Close down in Holland …
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- A Dutch judge has ordered The Pirate Bay to shut down in The Netherlands.
“The anti-piracy organisation BREIN filed a suit against The Pirate Bay, saying it is responsible for millions of copyright infringements on a daily basis. Traffic to and from The Netherlands must be blocked within 10 days, and if they fail to do so, the company co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmsioppi and Fredrik Neij will be ordered to pay $42,300 per day in penalties,” says NME, going on:
“The men say they have never received a summons, were unaware of the case being brought against them and will appeal the ruling.”
Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde told TorrentFreak he and his two fellow TPB operators will appeal the decision, and that they’re now looking for a lawyer.
“Interestingly, the verdict claims that The Pirate Bay doesn`t have a registered owner, but holds the three accused responsible for it,” says the story, adding the site is owned by a company called Reservella, “and not any of the defendants named in the case”.
Sweden’s Global Gaming Factory X is currently in the process of acquiring TPB and if it succeeds, is thinking about renaming itself as — The Pirate Bay.
Internet file sharing expert Wayne Rosso (right) was working with GGF but recently decided he wanted nothing further to do with the deal or the company.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
NME – The Pirate Bay ordered to shut down in Netherlands, July 30, 2009
TorrentFreak – The Pirate Bay Ordered To Close In The Netherlands, July 30, 2009
renaming itself – Will GGF become The Pirate Bay?, July 30, 2009
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July 31st, 2009 at 10:02 am
Of course the more technical inclined users in The Netherlands will have alternatives or know how to manage outside proxies, TOR etc. to keep access to PirateBay. As I understand what happened at the hearing and the verdict the judge gave her verdict because the judge heard only one side of the story. When The Pirate Bay finds a dutch lawyer, they can ask for another hearing and ask for the verdict to be dismissed.
For those that can read dutch, or trust Google translations, check out http://tweakers.net/nieuws/61563/uitspraak-pirate-bay-zaak-heeft-weinig-waarde-update.html
July 31st, 2009 at 11:23 am
…….so cannabis is legal, but an internet search engine isn’t. Riiiiiight.
July 31st, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Anyone with a modicum of experience in legal procedure understands what âdefault judgmentâ means. I read Sunde laughing about how âobviouslyâ the Dutch court couldnât rule against TPB if they just didnât bother to show up and âclaimedâ they didnât hear about the case beforehand â despite giving INTERVIEWS with fawning reporters about that very lawsuit, before the date of the hearing.
This is not kindergarten in Sweden, Sunde. This is reality. Incompetence, ignorance, and a generally sloppy approach to substantive issues wonât magically turn into âmuch winâ if you smile and act cute, sorry.
These are the same guys who want people to âtrust themâ to run the Relakks/Ipredator VPN service, right? Gee, their record with legal matters and overall operational confidence sure is confidence-inspiring isnât it? With TPB, at least nobodyâs really at risk if the Smirking Swedes continue to stumble about like rank amateurs. However, a paid VPN service involves real money, real risk, and real people putting their trust in TPB not to be bumbling idiots. A disaster waiting to happen. . .
August 1st, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Fausty, what you are overlooking is that the stupid dutch judge has NO business to tell guys from sweden/norway what to do!
If a swedish/norwegian citizen should have to care what some low level judge in a forign country is doing/demanding, why not have some american citizen need to care too what a court in iran rules?!
you americans have free speech which, give you for example the right to say certain things about the events in germany from 1933 to 1945 that would bring you behind bars if a judge in germany could rule over you Fine, if you think a dutch low grade judge can dictate what a forign national has to do, and threaten him with fines, get your penalties from the Landgericht in Munich (this is a notorious court famous in germany for arguning that every thing involving german nationals even from other states (Länder) is their business since the internetis reachable in munich too!) for doing stuff as an american residing in america but on a website on the internet that is reachable in germany!